Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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Jon Pardew Movie Review: 6/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 11% - no love from the critics

Opening: May 23rd

Rated PG-13
Sexual Content: 5/10
Violence: 3/10
Profanity: 4/10
Drugs/Alcohol: 4/10

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore star together once again in a movie where the two of them fall in love with each other.  This time in Africa!  Jim (Adam Sandler) is raising three girls and working at Dick's Sporting Goods, while Lauren (Drew Barrymore) has her own closet organizing business and is raising two boys.  The movie starts while they are on their first date.  It is a blind date that goes horribly wrong.  They later run into each other again at a convenience store where they confirm their despise for each other.  Things get interesting when Jim finds that the store clerk mixed up their cards and shows up at Lauren's house to switch them back.  While there it is discovered that a blended family vacation wont work out for Lauren's friend who is dating Jim's Boss.  Jim over hears this and on his way out calls his boss and buys the vacation from him while Lauren talks her friend into giving her the trip inside.  They then run into each other in Africa and find themselves in a variety of awkward moments and heart-warming family situations.

I'm not going to lie, I like seeing these two together in a movie.  Blended was probably my favorite.  It has all the gags and silly things that you would expect from a Adam Sandler movie and the story developed nicely. Once they were in Africa, I was rolling on the floor laughing and trying not to "get a zebra stripe in my underpants".  Then I would crack up again at every time  Terry Crews came on singing!

I really enjoyed Adam Sandler's character.  All the things that seemed to label him a stupid man would come full circle and show that those "stupid man" things had deeper meaning.  For me it was a breath of fresh air because I am tired of seeing men portrayed in the media as lazy, grumpy or stupid.  Sandler's character had some of these but there was always a meaning behind them.  Really, he played a very responsible single father who tried his best to be there for his girls.  It spoke clearly about how we should not judge somebody before we get to know them.  Everybody has their own experiences in their own lives and they are molded by those experiences.  Just because somebody does things a certain way, that is different than the way we would do them does not make them bad or lazy.  It probably just means that their past experiences molded them a different way.  

1 comment:

  1. "confirm their disperse for each other" indeed

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